ISO 3166-2:BR


ISO 3166-2:BR is the entry for Brazil in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization, which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Currently for Brazil, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 26 states and one federal district. The Federal District has a special status similar to the states.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Brazil. The second part is two letters, widely used in Brazil as abbreviations of the states and federal district.

Current codes

Subdivision names are listed as in the ISO 3166-2 standard published by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.
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CodeSubdivision name Subdivision category
Acremono|BR-AL

Previous codes

The following codes were used for previous states and territories:
conventions for numerical representation of each current federation unit, where the first digit is the region and the second digit its element:
RegionFederation units
Norte
prefix 1		 RO AC AM RR PA AP TO
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Nordeste
prefix 2		 MA PI CE RN PB PE AL SE BA
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Sudeste
prefix 3		 MG ES RJ SP
31 32 33 35
Sul
prefix 4		 PR SC RS
41 42 43
Centro-Oeste
prefix 5		 MS MT GO DF
50 51 52 53

This is not part of the ISO standard but there is a direct mapping between ISO codes and IBGE numbers. IBGE is the authority for the ISO codes and defined both codes and numbers.